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Visas for Teaching in Korea

• Korean Heritage Visas • Age Restrictions on Visas

Korean Immigration will only issue the E2 work visa (solely for the purpose of teaching English) to passports holders of the following 7 countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, Ireland and USA.

You must have the minimum qualification of a completed bachelor degree in any field. You must have had the degree issued to you and not have only finished a course equivalent to the degree.

If you do not have any bachelor degree you might qualify for the issuance of a H1 holiday travel visa from your home country. These are available for a set number of applicants a year and people between 18-30 years will most likely qualify.

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HOWEVER NOTE: You do not qualify to work at any language school in Korea with this H1 visa and must check carefully what your legal working status in Korea will be when you apply.

In our experience it is applied for when a couple or two friends are intending to live together in Korea for the 12 months and one person is obtaining an E2 visa. In this instance the second person would not qualify for a spouse visa and would therefore have to enter as tourist and leave Korea every 3 months to reactivate the tourist visa. The H1 Visa allows some work to be undertaken whereas the tourist visa does not allow any work.

Korean Heritage Visas [F4]

Many Korean-Americans are finding that they do qualify for a different visa based on family connection to Korea.[ F4 visas] Many employers will only hire ethnic Koreans from foreign countries on this particular visa. Our company does not work with this visa and it is important than any person in this situation applies directly with Korean employer to best negotiate a package suitable to their visa status.

Age Restrictions on Visas

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Employment in government public school education does have a capped age limit of 55 yrs. The retirement age in Korea is presently 60 yrs and therefore it is highly unlikely that anyone nearing or past 55-60 yrs will obtain a visa.

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